Honestly this is what the canary in the coal mine was for me. As soon as it happened I said to myself "This is juicing of short term metrics at the expense of

Honestly this is what the canary in the coal mine was for me. As soon as it happened I said to myself "This is juicing of short term metrics at the expense of long term success and goodwill, the final triumph of management over engineering." It was obviously such a user hostile obnoxious move that I will never understand why no one ever pointed it out. Googles hey day is past it may stick around for a long time but it has become the new MS, while MS is the new IBM. It's funny I always assumed Amazon would become MS before Google.